# Getting both injectable rapid acting and Afrezza covered **URL:** \ **Category:** Insurance\ **Tags:** insulin\ **Created:** [August 31, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808 "2017-08-31T19:37:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pianoplayer7008](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/pianoplayer7008/32/1507_2.png) [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/1 "2017-08-31T19:37:54Z")
Question that came up while taking to my husband (a nurse) about my dwindling supply of Novolog and syringes (which I use along with the Afrezza). We’re still in process of getting Afrezza approved (and a Dexcom…). Currently, I just have my old prescription from during pregnancy for the Novolog - my doc hasn’t prescribed anything but the Afrezza. My husband thinks that, because insurance denied coverage for Afrezza because there are other options, if my doctor was to prescribe more Novolog/syringes for me, I might as well give up on getting the Afrezza covered, because why would insurance want to cover it if I’m obviously using Novolog. Thoughts? Input from those using both? ---
**Author:** ![Sam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/sam/32/10595_2.png) [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/2 "2017-08-31T19:42:21Z")
It hasn’t been an issue for me or anyone else I’ve heard from. The struggle to get afrezza approved is a seperate issue from whatever they’re willing to approve automatically and I’ve never heard of one affecting the other. Virtually everyone I know on afrezza maintains an ongoing novolog / humalog or apidra rx Are you actually using novolog with syringes? I’d switch to flex pens syringes are ridiculous… ---
**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/3 "2017-08-31T19:43:47Z")
Get the Novolog prescription, needing two kinds of insulin isn’t unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Pianoplayer7008](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/pianoplayer7008/32/1507_2.png) [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/4 "2017-08-31T19:47:30Z")
LOL yes! It’s a newbie thing - started out with vial and syringes, someone kindly gave me a couple pens when my last vial broke, but I was/am still doing such low doses of N, I preferred the “reassurance” of seeing the amount in the syringe rather than trusting the pen to give me 1u at a time. 😆 Definitely going with the pen as it’s meant to be used next… ---
**Author:** ![Pianoplayer7008](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/pianoplayer7008/32/1507_2.png) [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/5 "2017-08-31T19:47:55Z")
Good to know! ---
**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/6 "2017-09-01T04:25:11Z")
10 posts were split to a new topic: [Insulin: syringes vs pens](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-syringes-vs-pens/1817) ---
**Author:** ![Millz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/millz/32/12204_2.png) [@Millz](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Millz)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-both-injectable-rapid-acting-and-afrezza-covered/1808/7 "2017-09-01T14:56:05Z")
While I was on MDI, I had three recurring RX’s for insulin, all covered by insurance: long acting, short acting and Afrezza. Now that I pump, I still have two: short acting and Afrezza! Having a short acting RX shouldn’t impact getting Afrezza covered. I hope you get your insurance company on the bus 🚌 !